gammon vs truck

gammon

verb
  • To beat by a gammon (without the opponent bearing off a stone). 

  • To lash with ropes (on a ship). 

  • To cure bacon by salting. 

noun
  • Backgammon (the game itself). 

  • A rope fastening a bowsprit to the stem of a ship (usually called a gammoning). 

  • A victory in backgammon achieved when the opponent has not borne off a single stone. 

  • A cut of quick-cured pork leg. 

  • A middle-aged or older right-wing, reactionary white man, or such men collectively. 

truck

verb
  • To fight or otherwise physically engage with. 

  • To engage in commerce; to barter or deal. 

  • To run over or through a tackler in American football. 

  • To tread (down); stamp on; trample (down). 

  • To travel, to proceed. 

  • To trade, exchange; barter. 

  • To have dealings or social relationships with; to engage with. 

  • To fail; run out; run short; be unavailable; diminish; abate. 

  • To drive a truck. 

  • To give in; give way; knuckle under; truckle. 

  • To convey by truck. 

  • To move a camera parallel to the movement of the subject. 

  • To persist, to endure. 

  • To deceive; cheat; defraud. 

noun
  • Social intercourse; dealings, relationships. 

  • Any smaller wagon/cart or vehicle of various designs, pushed or pulled by hand or (obsolete) pulled by an animal, used to move and sometimes lift goods, like those in hotels for moving luggage or in libraries for moving books. 

  • A small wheel or roller, specifically the wheel of a gun carriage. 

  • A lorry with a closed or covered carriage. 

  • The part of a skateboard or roller skate that joins the wheels to the deck, consisting of a hanger, baseplate, kingpin, and bushings, and sometimes mounted with a riser in between. 

  • The practice of paying workers in kind, or with tokens only exchangeable at a shop owned by the employer [forbidden in the 19th century by the Truck Acts]. 

  • The ball on top of a flagpole. 

  • Dirt or other messiness. 

  • A heavier motor vehicle designed to carry goods or to pull a semi-trailer designed to carry goods. 

  • A railroad car, chiefly one designed to carry goods 

  • A platform with wheels or casters. 

  • Garden produce, groceries (see truck garden). 

  • On a wooden mast, a circular disc (or sometimes a rectangle) of wood near or at the top of the mast, usually with holes or sheaves to reeve signal halyards; also a temporary or emergency place for a lookout. "Main" refers to the mainmast, whereas a truck on another mast may be called (on the mizzenmast, for example) "mizzen-truck". 

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